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Monday, September 24, 2012

CDAC
is having another Progressive Challenge and this time, now don’t fall of your
seats, I’m not getting mine done and in at the last second! I know, total
shocker stopper isn’t it? And I think I might actually even be happy with what
I did! Sorry…didn’t mean to shock you so much at once.

The
image that we were given to play with this time is by Priscilla Styles and OMG…it
is just the best! We had a choice of 3 styles of the same image….Halloween Cat,
Lazy Cat or Christmas Cat. So since the big HOHOHO time is coming around quick…and
I don’t do Halloween cards and frankly Lazy just might have given me some
baaaad ideas…I picked Christmas!

The
cs is from SU and the dp is from Forever In Time Scrapbook Collection. The
small red flat blacked pearls are from my stash. I coloured it with my
Staedtler pencil crayons and oms and my gold, red, blue and green gel pens. I added
Digistamps4Joy’s Light String on the green cs behind my Christmas Cat image and
I coloured the lights with my gold, green, red, pink and blue gel pens. I added
stickles for the snow in the window and the falling snow and on the cat’s hat.
I added red glitter glue onto my poinsettia’s. I used my SU ticket corner punch
in the corners and added my Meridian Border from Memory Box.

The
sentiment is my own…if you would like to use it, please just let me know.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

It’s
another New Release Day at Digistamps4Joy and boy do we ever have some eye
candy for all of you today. I know, I always say that, but have I ever steered
you wrong?

Our
artists have been hard at work to bring us some incredible images once again.
For this week’s release the rest of the design team and I were given one of Jen’s
newest images to play with.

This
sweet little image is called Little Sailor Suit and is it not adorable. Reminds
me of some of the cute little outfits that my aunt used to put my twin cousin’s
in.

I
coloured this adorable image with my Staedtler pencil crayons and oms, and did
some of the red trim with my red gel pen. The paper is from Forever In Time
Scrapbook Collection and the series is Baby Boy (I got it at my local dollar
store). The
cs is by Bazzil. The ribbon is from my stash (I’m pretty sure that I got it at
Michaels).

To
check out this image and all of the other wonderful one’s we’re releasing today
just head on over to the Digistamps4Joy Challenge Blog.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Have
you heard the news? Digistamps4Joy is having a Design Team Call!!! No, you are
not seeing things…we are definitelyhaving a DT call. That’s right, we are looking for someone to come and
join our fun loving team. Might be interested? Need some details? Well just
look below and we will tell you all you need to know.

DIGISTAMPS4JOY DT CALL !!!

Would you
like to be a member of our Design Team? DS4J is looking for ONE new member.

Do you love
working with a wide variety of styles of digistamps?

Do you
maintain an active blog?

Can you
commit to creating a papercraft project every fortnight?

Would you
like the opportunity to ‘earn’ your choice of digistamps from the DS4J store?

Can you
commit to a 3 month term with a possibility of an extension?

We don’t
have any extra-ordinary requirements from our Design Team:

·You will be sent an invitation to the
Private DT group on CDAC

·Create a mandatory papercraft project
every two weeks for the challenge

·Create a voluntary papercraft project
every week for the new releases

·Create a voluntary papercraft project
once a month for the freebie

·Comment on challenge entries

·Pop in at the CDAC and PCP DS4J groups
to interact with the members

If your
answer is YES!!! to all of
these questions, we’d love to hear from you.

Friday, September 21, 2012

It’s
challenge time again at Pattie’s Creations and this fortnight we have a favourite
theme…Anything Goes! That’s’ right crafters it’s time to get out your images
(as it is a rule at Pattie’s that your creation must have a digital or stamped
image), papers and embellies galore…in other words go wild! And then come on
over to our challenge blog and show us what you got.

Now
normally I’m not a big one for doing any Halloween cards, but Pattie has this
incredible image that I just had to play with. So I didn’t make a Halloween
card…but, I did use a Halloween image. Here’s what I came up with

The
image is called Halloween Cat on a Fence and of course the first thing my
warped mind thought of when I saw it, was that the cat was freaked out by how
old someone was. The continuation of the sentiment on the inside reads…."Is that
in dog years? Try to have a Happy Birthday Anyways." Yes, my family and friends
sense of humour is as warped as mine. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture
of the inside and it is too dark here now to do it, so I will try to get one
tomorrow to show you. I went very basic with this one as I wanted the image to
be the center of attention. The black cs is by Bazzil and the white is some
that I picked up from WalMart. I added some steel grey flat backed pearls by
Recollections and a bow made with some ribbon in my stash. I coloured it with
my Staedtler pencil crayons and oms and made the clouds going over the moon
with my SU pastels. I cut
out the sentiment using my Nestibilities scalloped die. I
outlined the sentiment and the moon with my steel blue gel pen. The sentiment is my own.

Now it’s
your turn and we can’t wait to see what you have in store for us. Head on over
to Pattie’s Creations Challenge Blog to check out all of the rules, prizes and
the incredible creations my team mates have done.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

I
was asked recently what my favourite thing about fall is and I would have to
say that the changing of the leaves is probably my favourite thing about it. We
had a road in Abbotsford (where I used to live) where all of these beautiful
deciduous trees grew and their branches would hang over the road so it looked
almost like a tunnel. There was nothing more beautiful than driving down this
road with all of the gorgeous reds, oranges, browns and golds.

So
you’re probably wondering what all of this talk about fall and leaves has to do
with our newest challenge at Digistamps4Joy. Well, we in the Northern Hemisphere are
preparing for autumn/fall and so we are challenging you to make a project with falling
leaves (see you knew there had to be a reason for me talking so much about the
leaves didn’t you?). To help us along on this challenge our wonderful artist
Jen Lee has made the cutest image. It’s called It’sHere Somewhereand just wait till you see it…I’m sure you’ll fall in
love with it just like I did.

See,
is he not the cutest thing you ever saw? Anyone who owns a dog, or has owned
one, can totally relate to this image. I
started out with a dark brown cs from Bazzil. Onto this I layered a burnt
orange dp with darker burnt orange leaves on it that was given to me by my mil.
Unfortunately there was no designer stamp on it so I have no idea who makes it.
I then added the dp with the leaf vines on it that I had in my stash (I know, I’m
not really helping you much with the papers this time am I?)layered
onto the dark brown cs. I also did this for the vertical strip. The
other dp is by Best Creation Inc. (yay I had the name of one!), and the leaf on
it is done with off white flocking. I
found the bone on Clip Art for Free and added the sentiment myself. The metal
maple leafs are brads that I had in my stash. I coloured it with my Staedtler pencil crayons and oms. Then I distressed the edges with an orange chalk pastel from my SU pastels.

For
the inside I used the burnt orange paper again and the back side of the vine paper. I added my own
sentiment again (I know, I have such a great imagination for sentiments lol).

Since
this is such a long post I’m not going to list down all of the rules for our
challenge. I’m just going to tell you to head on over to the Digistamps4JoyChallenge Blog and check out the challenge for yourself. All of the rules are
in the right hand column…as well as a list of all the yummy prizes. While you’re
there check out all of the marvellous creations that my team mates have made up
to awe and inspire you.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

CDAC has started up their Progressive Challenges once again....YAY!! Unfortunately you cannot buy in anymore, but if you like the images you can go to the designers store and buy them. As usual I am coming in just under the wire with this one. My dd Kat and I have done a collaboration once again...I think she did better on her part of it than I did on mine. She coloured the images and then I added in the highlights and blended with the oms. We both went out and picked out the papers that we wanted to use, but when it came to the layout I am totally to blame *laughing*. I miss judged the size of my card in relation to the sizes that I made the images and so I didn't have the room to do all that I had wanted to do on this card, but, in the end I guess it makes a nice CAS card *smiling*.

So the image that we got to play with this time was some surfboards done by Tiffany Doodles and it really made you think of sun, sand and surf. We added some wonderful flowers to the board by Bearly Mine Designs. We also decided to add a Beach Babe to the mixture, so we used Toes in the Sand by Saturated Canary.

I'll have to come back to fill you in on the details...papers used, etc. as the family is getting impatient to go out.

It’s
New Release day again at Digistamps4Joy and have we ever got some fabulous
images to show you! This week me and my teammates got to play with a new
Gardening Set that Margy has done up and boy are you going to love them. There
are 10 images to the set, so you will have lots that you can do with them. Here’s
what I came up with….

The
images that I used were the planter, gardening gloves and the gardening shovel
and fork. I added another newer image of ours, Rose Trio which I printed out twice, as my foliage for the
planter. All of the images were coloured with my Staedtler pencil crayons and
oms. I distressed around the image using my SU pastels. Now head on over to Digistamps4Joy Challenge Blog to check out all of the
rest of the images and the incredible creations that my teammates have come up
with. We hope to see you joining in on our challenges (there's still time to enter into our current one)….maybe even using one of
these new images :D

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Hi
everyone, I hope that you are all having a good weekend so far. My weekend has
been pretty laid back so far…just working on cards that I need to get done…it
would sure be nice if my mojo would come back home to stay.

The
card I’m showing today is a Sympathy card that I made up for someone close to me and the memorial was today. Digistamps4Joy
recently released an image called Music Sheet and I knew that it would be the
perfect image for the sympathy card. It would also be great for an anniversary
card, Christmas…well you take a look and I’m sure you’ll be able to think of
lots of uses for it.

I
started off with a pale pink cs from Bazzil. On top of this I used a beautiful
beige dp from BoBunny. I used my Nestibilities Beaded Oval Die to cut out the
dp behind the image…that paper was from my stash. I used my SU Pastels to distress around the image in pink. The scalloped border is done
using my Meridian Border Die by Memory Box. I added light pink small and medium
flat backed pearls from Recollections. I
used my Memory Makers corner punch on the corners of the BoBunny papers on each
of the ends and the inside. I
also added vines on my ends made with my Savannah Border Punch by Memory Box.

The
sentiment inside was a freebie from A Piece of Heart. I printed it out on the
light pink cs and cut it out with my Nestibilities Beaded Oval Die. The type of
card I made is called a Middlestep card and you can find the tutorial here.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Digistamps4Joy’s
new challenge is in full swing. The theme of our challenge is Celebrate the
Colours of Spring. We were given this picture for our inspiration

Last
week was Team A’s turn to inspire you, this week it’s Team B’s. For my card I
used Digistamps4Joy’s Calla Lillies. I merged 2 of the image together to make a bouquet of lillies. I couldn’t decide what kind of a card I
wanted this to be, so I left the sentiment off until I do.

I
started off with blue cs from Bazzil and then added a layer of orange cs from
SU. The dp is from my local dollar store and the blue ribbon was from my stash.
I used my Memory Makers corner punch on all of these papers. I
cut out blue cs and the image using my Nestibilities scalloped ovals. I
coloured the image with my Steadtler pencil crayons and oms. For the corner I
used my Madera Corner Die by Memory Box. Onto this I added some orange flowers
that I had in my stash and made the yellow centers with my SU punch. The blue
jewel flowers in the center are from my local dollar store and I filled the
center with yellow Liquid Pearl. I also used drops of the yellow Liquid Pearl
on the stems as small buds.

I
hope that I have managed to inspire you in some way to come and join us in our
challenge. To join us and to see all of the incredible creations that my team
mates have made just go to our Challenge blog. We can’t wait to see what you
create.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

My dear
friend Kim, of It’s All About Crafting, is celebrating her birthday this month
and her 2nd Blogversary. And to help us all join in on the fun with
her she is offering up this incredible stash of goodies to a couple of very
lucky people. Here’s a pic of some of the goodies and what she has to say about
it….

Hi all you wonderful people
in blog land!

I want to thank each and
every one of you who are followers of my blog!

Last month made it 2 years

and this month is my 42nd
birthday!

So I am going to give some
candy away!

I have found stamps that I
have never used,

prisma markers that I
bought,

embellies, flowers, and
loads more stuff

that I want to give to a few
special people!

I am going to make a few
goodie boxes and at the end of the month

I will randomly pick a few
names to send them to!

All I ask is that you be a follower,

leave a comment

put the picture on your side bar,

and have posted about it!

The picture is just a sample of what I have!

HUGS

and thank you again!!

So
there you go…all you have to do is go over to her blog (and while you’re there
you might want to check out all of the incredible creations she has), post your
own post about her candy, do a side posting, become a follower and make a comment….easy peasy! Good luck!

Friday, September 7, 2012

Hey
everyone, it’s time for another challenge at Pattie’s Creations. This time our
challenge is to emboss. Any type of embossing will do…dry embossing, heat
embossing, embossed papers…you get the idea. As usual we do require that you
have a digital or stamped image on your creation. You don’t have to have a
Pattie’s Creations image…but we sure would be tickled pink if ya did.

For our
challenge Pattie generously let me play with Soaring Eagle. I was so excited…and
nervous to be able to use this one. I have a very dear friend on the CDAC that
has eagles that live right near her home on Vancouver Island so I wanted to be
able to give her an eagle on her Birthday Fat Page. Unfortunately my colouring
skills are not quite up to doing a Bald Eagle as wonderful as it is, so I
decided to colour it like an African Fish Eagle (or as close as I could get it
to that *laughing*). I coloured this fabulous image with my Crayola Crayons and oms.

I
started off with blue cs from SU, which I embossed with my Garden Delight
Design B Reversible M-Bossibilities Folder. This folder is so great as it gives
you two embossing folders in one. I then took some pink roses dp from my stash
and cut out a square frame (by hand as I don’t own a punch or die that will do
this). To this I added some pink dp from BoBunny. The pretty pink ribbon I had
in my stash and the flat backed pearls are by Recollections. I made the flowers
myself with my EK Success flower punch and my SU 3 flower punch (sorry I can’t
remember the name for it but it has 3 flower punches on one punch.). I ran the
blue pieces through my Cuttlebug with the M-Bossibilities folder to give it a
bit of texture. The leaves were done with my Marvy Uchida Oak leaf punch and
the vines are made with my Savannah Border Die by Memory Box.

I made
the dp behind the eagle by taking half of my Scallop punch from SU and using my
SU pastels to form the clouds. I started off with Pink, then used 2 different
shades of blue and blended them all in to give the soft look of clouds in a
evening sky.

On the
inside left hand side I used a sentiment that I found at Birds Cards and on the
right side is a sentiment I found on Split Coast Stampers.

I also
added the embossed flower and the ribbon on the inside of the card. On the
back I added another sentiment that I found at Birds Cards and some more of the
flowers and vines. I also used a Making Memories corner stamp on the corners of my pink paper.

So now
that you have made it through this very long post, I hope that you will make
your way over to Pattie’s Creations Challenge Blog and join in on our
challenge. While you’re there check out what my teamies have done…there’s lots
of great inspiration there. Also please make sure that you check out our rules…we
don’t have many so it shouldn’t take you long *smiling* Also, if you have entered our last challenge, you will find the winners listed on the right hand side column. Congratulations to those that won!

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Just a
reminder to everyone that this Friday is Freebie Friday at Digistamps4Joy. You
do not want to miss out on this one people…it is just too cute for words. Here’s
a little sneak peak at what we have in store for you….

Well,
what do you think…does it wet your appetite to come and check it out on Friday?
All you have to do to see and get this fab image is go to Digistamps4Joy’sChallenge Blog. Hope to see you all there.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

It's time for
another Sunday New Release day at Digistamps4Joy and have we ever got some
fabulous images for you again.

This time I
got to play with a really fun image called Guilty Gus. Wait till you see him,
he is just too cute! I decided to
merge him with another image that was released recently called Garden Gate, and
this is what I came up with. Since he had such a guilty look on his face, I decided to make a Belated Birthday card.

I used a nice
dark brown cs from Bazzil for my base. To that I added a very soft pink cs from
Bazzil that I dry embossed with my Spellbinders M-Bossibilities Reversable
Embossing Folder - Enchanted. Over that I added my dp Indie Chic Nutmeg “Hanging
Out” Roses by My Mind’s Eye. Then I added the brown and pink cs once again. I
used my Cuttlebug Vintage Corner Die for the corner ( cut out one corner and
cut it in half).

I coloured the
image with my Steadtler pencil crayons and oms. I added some highlighting with
my white gel pen. The flowers and ribbon are from my stash and the vine is made with my Memory
Box Savannah Border die. To check out this adorable image and all of the other fabulous images being release, just go to our challenge blog. And while you're there check out the incredible creations my teammates have made. Thanks for looking ~ CharleneChallenges Entered:Challenges 4 Everybody: Challenge #2 - Anything Goes(Sept.28)Great Impressions: Sentimental Journey - Anything as long as it has a sentiment.(Sept. 30)No Matter Which Challenge: Challenge #2 - Dies/Punches(Sept. 28)One Stitch at a Time: Challenge #129 - Use a DigiScrappers Delights Challenge: Birthday ChallengeStampin Sisters In Christ: Challenge #155 - BirthdayCatch the Bug: September Challenge - Anything GoesSecret Crafter: Challenge #201 - Animal Antics (one or more animals on your card)

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About Me

Hello, my name is Charlene. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 26 years and I have 2 children. A boy 25 and a girl 21. I live on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada...better known as the Wet Coast because of the amount of rain that we get.
I first started crafting when my son was in his second year of Beavers. My husband and I became leaders that year with 2 other wonderful people. I found that I had a nack for finding ways of making crafts for the Beavers to do that were cute but inexpesive. I moved on from Beavers into Guiding and followed my daughter through her 2 years of Sparks and Brownies and her first year of Guides. When she left I continued on for a few years. During this time I found that I loved making things by hand for people...so when I was introduced to making cards 3 years ago, I jumped into it enthusiastically. And I have never regretted it. Making cards has given me a creative outlet that not only lets me express myself, but allows me to give something to my family and friends that is truly unique.